CLIMATIC RESEARCH WORK
STUDY OF LAKE DEPOSITS. SWEDISH PROFESSOR’S PLANS. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Sept, 30. Dr. C. O. Caldenius, lecturer in geology at the Stockholm . University, arrived by the Wanganella to investigate in the Rakaia Valley old lake bed deposits discovered and described by Professor Speight. In an interview Dr. Caldenius explained that a Swedish geologist named De Gener had found that the stratification in lake bottoms gave the exact record year by year of deposits of river silt and thus showed the actual character of the weather year by year, as well as of a long period of climatic changes. This afforded valuable evidence with regard to the glacial period. lle had come to New Zealand specially to investigate the Rakaia deposits, an opportunity he had sought for many years.
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Hawera Star, Volume LIII, 2 October 1933, Page 4
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